Re: john the ripper

[Jon Hart <warchild () spoofed org>]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:38:31AM -0600, fbr wrote:
> The following benchmarks are all "FreeBSD MD5 [32/32]" tests done with john.
>
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
> 5903 c/s real, 5903 c/s virtual
>
> Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
> 4094 c/s real, 4355 c/s virtual
>
> Pentium III (Coppermine)
> 2455 c/s real, 2455 c/s virtual
>
> Can anyone provide any Athlon benchmarks?
>
> -Forrest

Benchmarking: FreeBSD MD5 [32/32]... DONE
Raw:    4205 c/s real, 4455 c/s virtual

Thats on an Athlon XP 1800+, which is running at ~1500MHz.

When I'm cracking passwords that I suspect of being abnormally hard to
crack, I do my best to tweak my John run(s) accordingly.  i.e., on
solaris I'll make the max password length 8 and the minimum something
like, oh, 6 or whatever local restrictions might be in place.  I've also
had good results running 3 incremental cracks at once (on the same
machine if 4 processors are available, otherwise on 3 different
machines), using the "All", "Alpha" and "Digits" incremental cracks.

17 days is quite a long time, but keep going.

-jon


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